Yeah, news can have a negative impact, and mostly always does.
That said, people feel the need to know whats going on in this world. Its always been like that.

Yeah, with rape, your worried more about the lasting effects than anything. She'll never forget what happened, and like many other rape suffers, they'll find it hard to get into a relationship when older, and may even make mistakes because of it. For instance, letting a guy take advantage of her, etc because she might think shes worth nothing to anyone.

Its just really bad. I don't get it. in the news in this past year, theres been more and more and more news reports about attacks like this, and attacks with weaponry not seen for a long time in the news before.

What causes people to just act like that knowing for instance that the victim is suffering, and still goes ahead with it. I'll never ever understand people like that.

Yeah, things like that happen. Last year, there were several reports to the San Jose Police that someone was trailing a female or doing something suspicious around/near them. The school e-mailed everyone and announced it to the whole school to watch out. To make things worse, two of our students died last year, one because of heart failure (I knew him too) and one from a car crash. It was pretty sad because they died within two or three months of each other too.